On the "Red Green Show" out of Canada, one of my favorite characters on the show is Ed Frid, the extremely nervous local animal control officer (if an ant approaches him aggressively, it will send him up the nearest tree!).

One of the recurring features in "The Red Green Show" is when Ed shows a particular animal and then gives information about it. Often, he wimps out, such as when he tried to palm off a fox terrier as a genuine wild fox.

On one show, he tries to palm off a crayfish as a lobster. Red says something to the effect that, "You don't know much about lobsters, I take it."

"Well," Ed responds testily, "I don't get many calls from people with lobsters up their chimneys, if that's what you mean. Or calls about a rabid lobster running around killing the sheep!"

Don Firth